Chapter 8
It turned out that he also sought help from the scientists.
Elias’s eyes suddenly widened. “At that time, he told me I was the second person to participate. Could it be that the first person was…”
Yes.
That person was me.
When Elias was lying inside that machine, the overload and pressure caused him to collapse at one point.
Because he gave up, too.”
But I told him that I lasted a full hour.
During that time, I vomited blood.§
The scientists were afraid someone might die, so they kept trying to persuade me to give up.
But I still refused to press the pause button. I thought as long as I could return to him, everything would be worth it. That belief had always supported me. But this time, I want to give up.
I also told him, “The scientists said that one of the data points was changed after I entered the experimental machine.”
“Someone reached you before I did and took on the role of your childhood sweetheart. Do you know who that person is?“}
I stared at him closely.”
Elias’s eyes filled with panic and he took a few steps back.
“Could it be…?”
Yes. It was the person he believed to be his true love.
I had already known in my previous life that Clarissa liked him.}
Every time I was with Elias, she would appear from a distance and look at me with jealous eyes.
She still secretly pestered him.}
And she asked, “I’m not uglier than her, so why did you choose her? Why?“}
Elias was stunned for a long time before finally letting out a helpless smile. “Maybe… maybe it’s because I and Liora knew each other first.”
So, after he got into trouble, I heard that the scientists had a time machine and before I could act, she had already tampered with it.
The scientist admitted it was his fault. “I didn’t expect her to be so bold, risking her life to break into the laboratory.”}
“But you can change it back,” he told me. “it will just cause him extreme pain.“}
That kind of pain would make him feel worse than death, like the torment of cancer.
I could not bear it, so I decided to give up.
I thought… he and I had such a deep bond, how could something as trivial as a childhood sweetheart role stand between us?}
But what I did not expect was that no matter how deep our connection was, it still could not compete with the concept of first come, first served.
What I believed to be unwavering love turned out to be no match for a string of cold, unfeeling data.} *Liora, I…“2
Even if he could not remember, those memories from our past should have been enough to move him.
In the end, the person he had hated so much… was the one he had loved most deeply in his previous life.§ How ridiculous.
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Elias’s eyes turned red as he tried to reach out and grab me with trembling hands.
However, I pulled my hand back and turned my head away.”
“Go away. I don’t want to see you.”}
‘I’m sorry…“%
Cassian stepped in and chased him away for me. “I gave you a chance, but you still failed to hold on to it. Who else can you blame?” “If you miss it, then you miss it.”\
“In this life, she no longer belongs to you.”
After Elias was driven away, I felt much better.}
Cassian was always very kind to me.”
Whenever he had free time, he would stay with me, tell me stories and try his best to make me smile.>>
Maybe the relationship between Cassian Rourke and me was not the kind of passionate, life–or–death love I once had with Elias, but the quiet, enduring bond between us gave me a kind of peace I had never felt before.M
While he was sleeping, he held my hand and whispered to me that we had met in our previous life.
“But I was just a very ordinary person back then. You probably don’t remember.“}
“At that time, I was just a fool who only cared about scientific research.”
No one paid attention to me. You were the only one who ever greeted me.“”
